The Outer **** Heirloom Talisman is a new accessory added in Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree expansion. This Talisman raises your Arcane stat, making it a good choice for builds that focus on Bleed or Poison build-up. Since Arcane also raises your Discovery stat, the Outer **** Heirloom Talisman is also good for… Read more... View the full article
The aftermath of the apocalypse is a familiar playground to anyone who plays games nowadays. Over the course of the last decade and a half, it’s become the de facto setting of many prestige AAA titles, such as PlayStation’s esteemed The Last of Us series, as well as indie games like Stray. I’m not entirely sure what… Read more... View the full article
I’ve got some good news for all you wild Mister Mosquito fans out there. The weird PS2 game starring a tiny mosquito man who sucks people’s blood is finally coming to PS4 and PS5 later this month. Oh, and some other cool-looking games too, like Plucky Squire and Far Cry 5. Read more... View the full article
One of my favorite things The Pokémon Company has done is aim to create at least some merch for every pocket monster. With over 1000 Pokémon, it’s unreasonable to expect each of them to get the same amount of attention as Pikachu, Eevee, and other marketable mascots. But merch lines like the Original Stitch… Read more... View the full article
The extraction shooter genre is positively booming, following the immense success of titles such as Escape From Tarkov, Hunt: Showdown and Helldivers 2. So it was only natural that developers would seek to make some set in medieval fantasy. There’s mobile hit, Dark and Darker, but even better, and with more… Read more... View the full article
Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 officially launched earlier this week and it has quickly become one of the most popular games on Steam. And now the devs behind this action-packed third-person shooter have confirmed some highly-requested features are coming soon in Space Marine 2's first big update. Read more... View the full article
One of the eternal debates in the Final Fantasy XIV community is whether you should play with a gamepad or mouse and keyboard. Just this week, Square Enix released data showing that the MMO’s players lean one way or the other depending on their region, with those in Japan, for example, overwhelmingly preferring… Read more... View the full article
In a franchise filled with iconic locations, The Gold Saucer stands out as one of the most recognizable in Final Fantasy history. Given its popularity, it’s no surprise that Square Enix added the theme park to its MMO entry of the series, Final Fantasy XIV. But how do you unlock this land of fun, and what can you do… Read more... View the full article
If you’re still playing games on a PlayStation 4, the upcoming $700 PS5 Pro might be the right opportunity to upgrade. Or you could get a base PS5 used from Sony for just half the price. A new refurbished program from the console manufacturer is helping to unofficially cut prices on the existing hardware. Read more... View the full article
Sony just announced the PlayStation 5 Pro, and the $700 console feels like a premium device for the most graphics-brained folks you know. The game comparisons we’ve seen so far look at least somewhat better than they do on the base hardware, but is it enough to drop more than half a grand for a new console? That’s in… Read more... View the full article
Elden Ring has a major new patch today, and some of the most notable changes are to Shadow of the Erdtree’s final boss. The encounter is still tough but some of the most brutal attacks have lost their stinging edge. Read more... View the full article
Remember that moment during Rogue One: A Star Wars Story when you felt pure, unadulterated horror, brutal shivers down your spine as a flock of geese trampled your grave? Brrrrr, that first time you see the ghoulish CG soup that is supposed to be a reanimated Grand Moff Tarkin. It turns out that, some eight years… Read more... View the full article
If you haven’t heard, Sony announced the PlayStation 5 Pro today, September 10, and that ******* is $700. That’s before you buy a disc drive and a vertical stand, which will run you another $110. The company is asking for nearly a grand to get the full experience, all in the name of a technical leap forward. But how… Read more... View the full article
Microsoft has officially rolled out Game Pass Standard, the Netflix-like subscription service’s new middle tier, and with it revealed which games will and won’t be included at the start. Among those missing are Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Diablo IV, and some other notable blockbusters like Starfield. Read more... View the full article
Last year, Ubisoft yanked The Crew from digital stores and a few months later ******* its servers, making it impossible to play the driving game even if you bought it on disc. People didn’t like this and now Ubisoft is promising not to ***** its sequels, The Crew 2 and The Crew: Motorfest. Read more... View the full article
The Boy and the Heron is legendary director Hayao Miyazaki’s masterpiece. The 2023 Studio Ghibli film is a triumphant work of art that revisits and interrogates every theme Miyazaki has spent his lengthy career digging into across numerous animated features that have become classics across the globe. Now a companion… Read more... View the full article
One thing Baldur’s Gate 3 excels at is letting you find your own way through a variety of situations, choosing whichever path seems most interesting to you. And while there are an almost infinite number of unique routes through the game, one of my personal favorite details is how differently the first act feels if you… Read more... View the full article
We’ve all got gaps in our gaming history that need to be filled. I certainly haven’t played every game ever, and neither have you. It can be hard to find the time and money to snag and play older and important games, but every now and then there are sales that make it that much easier to catch up on your backlog. GOG,… Read more... View the full article
I still haven’t purchased an Analogue Pocket, but the latest batch of colors has me itching to spend some money I don’t have on a thing I’ll barely ever play but that will look beautiful on my shelf and fill me with joy every time I walk by and admire it. Today the retro gaming hardware company announced a new batch… Read more... View the full article
After *********around in Solstice trying to get some glow in our gear, break time’s over, Guardians. Maya Sundaresh is up to some creepy nonsense with the Vex, which means it’s time to put in that work again. And compared to the cakewalk Arena/Battlegrounds quests of Episode: Echoes, Encore: Overture is long and… Read more... View the full article
On September 10, Sony officially unveiled the PlayStation 5 Pro. The console is planned to be the company’s most powerful PlayStation and will provide players with higher frame rates and better-looking visuals in PS5 and PS4 games. Read more... View the full article
The PS5 Pro boasts more powerful components and a new AI-upscaling method for better visuals, but games will needed to be updated in order to take advantage of all the bells and whistles on the pricey new hardware. So far, Sony has confirmed at least 13 games that will feature better resolutions, frame rates, or other… Read more... View the full article
Today, Sony officially unveiled the PS5 Pro, a mid-gen refresh of the 2020 PS5 console that boasts some new bells and whistles and a $700 price tag. During the 9-minute-long technical presentation, system architect Mark Cerny showed us all the new features, from advanced ray tracing to an upgraded GPU, and the… Read more... View the full article
Baldur’s Gate 3’s seventh big patch adds mod support, tweaks some companion interactions, and has updates for the incredibly challenging Honour Mode. But for most, the headliner of the patch is the ending update that adds new conclusions for the evil choice you can make at the end of the game. Precisely what happens… Read more... View the full article
The long wait is over: we now know what the PS5 Pro looks like, what it does, and what it will cost. So far it’s not going over too well. Read more... View the full article
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The Outer **** Heirloom Talisman is a new accessory added in Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree expansion. This Talisman raises your Arcane stat, making it a good choice for builds that focus on Bleed or Poison build-up. Since Arcane also raises your Discovery stat, the Outer **** Heirloom Talisman is also good for… Read more... View the full article